YAY!!

Yay!! We've been to Florida and Sea World and now back again!! I love going on vacation...and it's nice being home again. We stayed 2 weeks and enjoyed every single minute!! We hunted and found sharks' teeth, cool looking shells, saw some dolphins and manatee playing in the ocean, swam, splashed, shopped, ate like pigs, and slept like babies!! So, it was AWESOME!!

Now that we are back, we are on the last leg of our house-building journey. We came home to the house being almost all bricked and the sheetrock in and textured!! This week since we've been back, lots of changes taking place...cabinets are being built into the house in the kitchen, baths, desk in the butler's area, and our master closet...oh, and laundry room too!! All of the interior doors are in the garage ready to be installed and the garage doors are installed!! We've got the flooring all picked out...we had it picked out...but had to tweak it b/c of the colors of cabinets and the paint colors that we picked out. The formal dining will be painted in "burning bush"...aka deep RED!!! That's bold for me. I'm more of a neutral wall color kind of girl...with lots of color accents...but we're going out on a limb here.

Next week, the kids are going to Fall's Creek. It'll be their first venture there. I had some reservations in the past about sending them....but I truly believe this will be a week with wonderful growth both spiritually and socially for both Ryan and Christen!! So, Kaylyn and I will be doing some fun stuff like see "Toy Story 3", eat at the Pink House, go swim at G-parents' house, and we'll start working in my classroom...probably do some other fun things too...like SHOP!!

Well, it's been action-packed...and I'm ready for things to settle down and for us to be in our new home. We're all ready!! Praying for the next few weeks to be productive, yet calm!! :)